Album · 2006
Harmony in Ultraviolet
by Tim Hecker
Harmony in Ultraviolet is an album by Tim Hecker, released in 2006 on Kranky, with 15 tracks.
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- 50 min
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Album · 2006
by Tim Hecker
Harmony in Ultraviolet is an album by Tim Hecker, released in 2006 on Kranky, with 15 tracks.
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15 tracks · 50 min
" I've been a big fan of Tim Hecker for some time now. Although his music has always had a very singular feel, he's managed to keep things interesting over a wide variety of different releases, from his massive deconstruction of 80s cock rock (My Love Is Rotten To The Core EP to his ruminations on life in the tropics (the amazing Radio Amor). Harmony In Ultraviolet is his newest effort, and his first for the Kranky label. It picks up where Mirages left off, but pushes even further into a power ambient, embracing destruction, static, and noise even more than previous efforts. The first time that I listened to the release, I admit that it really didn't sink in. It was playing quietly in the background while I worked on some other things, and while there were moments that peeked out, it didn't push past background music. On second spin, I was able to play it with a little more volume, and that's where it really made a serious presence. After the short "Rainbow Blood" opens the album, "Stags, Aircraft, Kings & Secretaries" cracks things open as waves of rolling feedback and filtered electronic flutters slide across each other like glaciers. The track gets especially dense during the m…